[clue] revisiting boot partition and LVM + grub

Will will.sterling at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 17:26:43 MST 2012


Anaconda has been updated to use Grub 2.  I do not know how much it will
let you do with /boot but it should not even need its own LV.  It "should"
work even on the root LV as it would with an ext2 root file system.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Aaron D. Johnson
<adj at fnord.greeley.co.us>wrote:

> Will writes:
> > Fedora switched from Grub Legacy to Grub 2 in Fedora 16.  There
> > should be nothing holding back a fresh install from not having /boot
> > on the same logical volume as /.
>
> Yep.  Does the F16 Anaconda let one create an LVM volume group, create
> /boot on a logical volume, and then install grub with the modules
> needed to boot from it?  Does Kickstart have enough knobs to make it
> work?  Or is manual intervention required?  (Clearly, I haven't tried
> this.  The single Fedora machine I have was installed with F15 and
> then "yum distrosync"ed to F16.)
>
> - Aaron
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